Today’s society is increasingly dependent on the facilities offered by new technologies. Thus, emerging technologies play a key role in people’s lives, as well as in the functionality and protection of infrastructures that ensure the availability of goods and essential services. Therefore, the exploitation of emerging technologies has become necessary even in the most sensitive sectors of activity, which have significant implications for ensuring national security. Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, robots, drones, machine learning and many more are feasible solutions for the dynamics and optimization of the environment in which they are integrated. The defence sector has also implemented a number of new technologies, integrating state-of-the-art digital systems into the communications architecture that are necessary for carrying out the military operations in a modern battlefield. Although, emerging technologies have a certain degree of uncertainty, they have already been adopted, and today premises are moving towards further innovation and development of emerging technologies by manufacturers that have an increasing interest to integrate them in the key areas of activity. This article provides an analysis of the impact of Internet of Things technologies on national security, in terms of critical infrastructure protection and the defence sector.
One year after the COVID-19 pandemic has become a public health emergency the health crisis is ongoing, as evidenced by the number of cases and deaths reported by countries worldwide. During this time, the educational process underwent a series of transformations, and all educational institutions aimed to maintain the educational process during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, using various means and tools. Thus, the existence of digital technologies and access to the Internet have significantly contributed to the continuation of teaching and research in a practical online learning environment. For this reason, online education together with teleworking, telemedicine, delivery services or internet banking are essential services to a society dependent on digital technology during the pandemic. Avoiding a major crisis in education was possible only through a sustained effort both organizationally, coming from states, authorities and educational institutions, and individually coming from teachers, support staff, students and parents. This article analyses the main critical valences of education from a social, economic and military perspective, as well as the resilience of education during the pandemic. Therefore, the educational process worldwide has managed to overcome the initial shock, and a year after the onset of the pandemic is still in the response stage specific to resilience.
The usefulness of critical infrastructure is identified by the goods produced and services provided to society, with great efforts, including the protection of the environment and human health. In this article, the impact of critical infrastructures on the environment is examined from the perspective of environmental factors. Thus, the impact of critical infrastructures on the main environmental factors is examined from the perspective of air, water and soil pollution. Nowadays, the effects of environmental factors, including those produced by critical infrastructure, were seen most strongly in both climate change and the human health. This shows a series of chain reaction effects on nature, plants, animals and people around the world. The endeavor of several states and relevant organizations consists in the considerable effort to mitigate these effects.
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